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Quantum high-harmonic generation (HHG) is a prominent and growing field of research with potential capabilities of providing high photon-number entangled states of light. However, there is an open debate regarding the theory level required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Sebastián de-la-Peña , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio , Ofer Neufeld

High-harmonic generation is a light up-conversion process occurring in a strong laser field, leading to coherent bursts of extreme ultrashort broadband radiation [1]. As a new perspective, we propose that ultrafast strong-field electronic…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) by hydrogenlike atoms/ions in the uniform periodic electric field, formed by the two linearly polarized counterpropagating laser beams of relativistic intensities, is studied. The relativistic quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 H. K. Avetissian , A. G. Markossian , G. F. Mkrtchian

The use of energy conservation arguments is ubiquitous in understanding the process of high harmonic generation, yet a complete quantum optical description of exact photon number exchange remained elusive. Here, we solve this gap in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Philipp Stammer

Spontaneous emission of the quantum system driven by a high intensity classical laser field is analyzed. The study is based on the accurate consideration of quantum system interaction with vacuum quantized field modes in the first order of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 A. V. Bogatskaya , E. A. Volkova , A. M. Popov

Recently, intensely driven laser-matter interactions have been used to connect the fields of strong laser field physics with quantum optics by generating non-classical states of light. Here, we make a further key step and show the potential…

The long-standing challenge to describing charged particle dynamics in strong classical electromagnetic fields is how to incorporate classical radiation, classical radiation reaction and quantized photon emission into a consistent unified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 B. M. Hegelich , L. Labun , O. Z. Labun

The dynamics of entanglement during the low energy scattering processes in bipartite systems at the presence of a laser field is studied, using the Kramers-Henneberger unitary transformation as the semi classical counterpart of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 R. RoozehdarMogaddam , N. SepehriJavan , K. Javidan , H. Mohammadzadeh

We present a theoretical demonstration on the generation of entangled coherent states and of coherent state superpositions, with photon numbers and frequencies orders of magnitude higher than those provided by the current technology. This…

We develop a numerical scheme to investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in intense laser-matter interactions. Tracing the time evolution of every electronic laser-field-free state, we "observe" the HHG in a time-integrated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Y. J. Chen , J. Liu , Bambi Hu

A quantum optical model for the high-order harmonic generation is presented, in which both the exciting field and the high harmonic modes are quantized, while the target material appears via parameters only. As a consequence, the model is…

Higher harmonic generation in plane graphene quantum dots initiated by intense coherent radiation is investigated, using dynamical Hartree-Fock mean-field theory. A microscopic theory describing the extreme nonlinear optical response of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 B. R. Avchyan , A. G. Ghazaryan , K. A. Sargsyan , Kh. V. Sedrakian

The strong-field process of high-harmonic generation (HHG) has, in recent years, been treated from a quantum optical perspective in the emerging research area of strong-field quantum optics. These investigations show that HHG radiation is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Christian Saugbjerg Lange , Lars Bojer Madsen

In strong field laser physics it is a common practice to use the high-order harmonic cutoff to estimate the laser intensity of the pulse that generates the harmonic radiation. Based on the semiclassical arguments it is possible to find a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Shaaran , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein

Mechanisms of high-harmonic generation from crystals are described by treating the electric field of a laser as a quasi-static strong field. Under the quasi-static electric field, electrons in periodic potentials form dressed states, known…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takuya Higuchi , Mark I. Stockman , Peter Hommelhoff

The invention of the laser immediately enabled the detection of nonlinear photon-matter interactions, as manifested for example by Franken et al.'s detection of second-harmonic generation. With the recent advancement in high-power,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-24 Kensuke Homma , Dieter Habs , Toshiki Tajima

The optical phase of the driving field in the process of high harmonic generation and the coherence properties of the harmonics are fundamental concepts in attosecond physics. Here, we consider to drive the process by incoherent classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Philipp Stammer

Squeezing of optical fields, used as a powerful resource for many applications, and the radiation properties in the process of high harmonic generation have thus far been considered separately. In this Letter, we want to clarify that the…

The generation of high harmonics in laser-irradiated light homonuclear diatomics (H2+, N2 and O2) compared to that in atomic counterparts (of nearly identical binding energy) is studied within the velocity gauge version of conventional…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vladimir I. Usachenko , Pavel E. Pyak , Shih-I Chu

We study the interactions of a possibly dense and/or quantum degenerate gas with driving light. Both the atoms and the electromagnetic fields are represented by quantum fields throughout the analysis. We introduce a field theory version of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Janne Ruostekoski , Juha Javanainen